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How To Create A WordPress Copyright Footer Message

by Marty Monday, August 17th, 2009

This is a very simple method on how you can generate a Dynamic copyright notice on your wordpress footer which will update each year without manually changing it…

To edit the text in your footer you will have to locate the footer.php file inside your template directory normally located inside:

/wp-content/themes/YourThemeNamefolder/

You can use the build-in editing feature located in the admin area -

Appearance->Editor->Select Theme->footer.php

edit-footer

You will notice the copyright notice in the footer text of this website,

The following code will produce the below.

Copyright &copy;
<?php $the_year = date("Y"); echo $the_year; ?>
<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>
All Rights Reserved.

OR Include a link back to your site

Copyright &copy; <?php $the_year = date("Y"); echo $the_year; ?>
<a href="<?php bloginfo('url');?>"><?php bloginfo('url'); ?></a> All Rights Reserved.

copy the code and paste it into your theme,

like i said “nice and simple”…

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10 Responses to “How To Create A WordPress Copyright Footer Message”

Jack Osborne says:

August 18, 2009 at 11:04 am

Very handy, cheers mate.

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April 1, 2010 at 5:28 pm

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cuttlewoman says:

July 30, 2010 at 1:29 am

I am very grateful to you for this straightforward explanation as I am
head-dick when it comes to matters technical.

Thankyou!

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cuttlewoman says:

July 30, 2010 at 2:57 am

I think wordpress has changed things so that the user has to pay $14.97 a year for an upgrade that allows them to change the CSS. Anyway, I had fun working it all out!

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Mint says:

January 4, 2011 at 12:14 pm

Thanks you for the code. It solved my problem of updating copyright date every year.

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Melanie says:

January 22, 2011 at 10:18 am

Thank you so much, Marty. I knew it would be simple to do this, and it is … when you know how! Appreciate you sharing this tidbit. Cheers

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February 17, 2011 at 12:47 am

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Susan says:

April 14, 2011 at 9:39 am

Thank you!

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thanhsa says:

July 16, 2011 at 4:31 pm

good nice post

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Pieter says:

October 30, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Hi,

Instead of this:

$the_year = date(“Y”); echo $the_year;

You can easily just do this:

the_time(‘Y’);

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